This photograph taken on January 30, 2025 shows a labourer looking into a Hindustan Ambassador yellow taxi, transporting fish at a wholesale market in Kolkata. Kolkata cherishes its past, which is why the one-time Indian capital is mourning a vanishing emblem of its faded grandeur: a hulking and noisy fleet of stately yellow taxis. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)

Indigenous people march during the annual Free Earth camp, where they discuss rights, territorial protection and their role in COP30, which will take place for the first time in the Amazon, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Photo by Eraldo Peres/AP Photo)

A wounded Palestinian man awaits medical attention at Khan Yunis' Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 19, 2025. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)

An Afghan vendor waits for customers at his stall selling plastic cans in a market in Mazar-i-Sharif on June 15, 2025. (Photo by Atif Aryan/AFP Photo)

Germany's Darja Varfolomeev competes with a ribbon during the individual apparatus final at the 41st FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships at Carioca Arena, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, August 24, 2025. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)

In more “raccoons are getting more like us” news, a drunk raccoon was found in a liquor store in Virginia, US in the first decade of December 2025. The animal had got into the shop via some loose ceiling tiles, knocked bottles of spirits off the shelves, lapped up the contents and passed out in the toilets. Once it had sobered up, it was released back into the wild – no doubt with a crashing hangover. (Photo by AP Photo)

With temperatures soaring and summer well underway, countless Americans will be spending their Independence Day weekend at the beach. Here we revisit some classic images from the turn-of-the-century to the 1930's of vacations by the sea, from Coney Island to Santa Monica.